BenAndrewBaking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for people to find. Am I becoming the Riddler? Is this fine?I just found out that there aren't exactly 52 weeks in a yearThe Rules, Leila Chattihttps://poets.org/poem/rulesBuilding fidgeting into a Zoom lectureThings of Science. (Subscription science toy service that I got when I was a kid)Posting pictures of pottery to social media. The Hopefully Year of Layoffs. Teaching game development as a hobby. The interactive comic books of Jason Shiga.Lies and truth and sea monsters. Waiting for half an hour to find out if you fucked it up. Baking intuitively.Skimming a recipe and thinking "hmm yes, I've made food before"Voronoi cookies. Keeping separate baking notebooks for each season.Having units that are divisible by two. Putting it in a Gas 4 Oven. How to pronounce "tare."Sneaking into Grandma's kitchen and weighing all the ingredients.Cruciverbalism.Where to post the crosswords you've constructed.A Lord's Puzzle.Giving people a little bit of joy and avoiding hearing any feedback about it. Living in the puzzle capital of the world.Constructing a crossword puzzle for every party you attend. The MIT Mystery Hunt. Making art for a really small group of people. Crosswordese.Designing themed vs. themeless crossword puzzles. How many weeks are in a leap year.Yet another ratio that doesn't work out.Calendrical systems you could use.Things that you know that are wrong. What's your favorite thing you don't know that you don't know?Finding a drawer full of narwhal tusks in a bone shop and thinking "hm, sixty unicorns died here"NASA's antigravity room.Why doesn't the Mars habitat work out? Multiple digressions on horse urine.Refining horse urine into progesterone on Mars.Suddenly realizing that you've been dead all along.Cicadas doing whatever they do in the trees.Acknowledging the expectations of what a poem is. Why you always turn out to have been dead at the end.Who is out there still making games about guns? Adding line breaks to make your essay look like a poem.Innominateness.Garden path level design.Reading aloud etudes.Mavis Beacon Teaches Elocution.Replacing your Zoom background with a video of yourself. Brain massaging video of cutting sand.The calming effect of amphetamines.Fidgeting incessantly during Zoom calls.Fidgeting for people so they don't have to. Bubbling noises and space harps.Remote testing protocols. Plagiarism detector snake oil.Doing homework to get used to the idea of doing homework. Mass-production of adults.Paperwork as a method of crowd control.Homework as a barrier to family time vs. homework that facilitates family time. Mailing people little bits of science. Aerogel vs. Superslurper.Growing mold in your oobleck.Sending 1940s children asbestos in the mail. Using every sense to explore the world. A dog sniffing your hand and walking away.Throwing away all the business cards that just have your Twitter handle on them. 
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